Florida Statute 550.615 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXIII
REGULATION OF TRADE, COMMERCE, INVESTMENTS, AND SOLICITATIONS

Chapter 550
PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING

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F.S. 550.615

550.615 Intertrack wagering.—

(1) Any thoroughbred permitholder licensed under this chapter which has conducted a full schedule of live racing may, at any time, receive broadcasts of horseraces and accept wagers on horseraces conducted by horserace permitholders licensed under this chapter at its facility.

(2) Except as provided in subsection (1), a pari-mutuel permitholder that has met the applicable requirement for that permitholder to conduct live racing or games under s. 550.01215(1)(b), if any, for fiscal year 2020-2021 is qualified to, at any time, receive broadcasts of any class of pari-mutuel race or game and accept wagers on such races or games conducted by any class of permitholders licensed under this chapter.

(3) If a permitholder elects to broadcast its signal to any permitholder in this state, any permitholder that is eligible to conduct intertrack wagering under the provisions of ss. 550.615-550.6345 is entitled to receive the broadcast and conduct intertrack wagering under this section; provided, however, that the host track may require a guest track within 25 miles of another permitholder to receive in any week at least 60 percent of the live races that the host track is making available on the days that the guest track is otherwise operating live races or games. A host track may require a guest track not operating live races or games and within 25 miles of another permitholder to accept within any week at least 60 percent of the live races that the host track is making available. A person may not restrain or attempt to restrain any permitholder that is otherwise authorized to conduct intertrack wagering from receiving the signal of any other permitholder or sending its signal to any permitholder.

(4) In no event shall any intertrack wager be accepted on the same class of live races or games of any permitholder without the written consent of such operating permitholders conducting the same class of live races or games if the guest track is within the market area of such operating permitholder.

(5) No permitholder within the market area of the host track shall take an intertrack wager on the host track without the consent of the host track.

(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3), in any area of the state where there are three or more horserace permitholders within 25 miles of each other, intertrack wagering between permitholders in said area of the state shall only be authorized under the following conditions: Any permitholder, other than a thoroughbred permitholder, may accept intertrack wagers on races or games conducted live by a permitholder of the same class or any harness permitholder located within such area and any harness permitholder may accept wagers on games conducted live by any jai alai permitholder located within its market area and from a jai alai permitholder located within the area specified in this subsection when no jai alai permitholder located within its market area is conducting live jai alai performances; any greyhound or jai alai permitholder may receive broadcasts of and accept wagers on any permitholder of the other class provided that a permitholder, other than the host track, of such other class is not operating a contemporaneous live performance within the market area.

(7) In any county of the state where there are only two permits, one for dogracing and one for jai alai, no intertrack wager may be taken during the period of time when a permitholder is not licensed to conduct live races or games without the written consent of the other permitholder that is conducting live races or games. However, if neither permitholder is conducting live races or games, either permitholder may accept intertrack wagers on horseraces or on the same class of races or games, or on both horseraces and the same class of races or games as is authorized by its permit.

(8) In any three contiguous counties of the state where there are only three permitholders, all of which are greyhound permitholders, if any permitholder leases the facility of another permitholder for all or any portion of the conduct of its live race meet pursuant to s. 550.475, such lessee may conduct intertrack wagering at its pre-lease permitted facility throughout the entire year.

(9) In any two contiguous counties of the state in which there are located only four active permits, one for thoroughbred horse racing, two for greyhound dogracing, and one for jai alai games, no intertrack wager may be accepted on the same class of live races or games of any permitholder without the written consent of such operating permitholders conducting the same class of live races or games if the guest track is within the market area of such operating permitholder.

(10) All costs of receiving the transmission of the broadcasts shall be borne by the guest track; and all costs of sending the broadcasts shall be borne by the host track.

(11) Any greyhound permitholder licensed under this chapter to conduct pari-mutuel wagering is qualified to, at any time, receive broadcasts of any class of pari-mutuel race or game and accept wagers on such races or games conducted by any class of permitholders licensed under this chapter.

History.—s. 47, ch. 92-348; s. 2, ch. 93-123; s. 17, ch. 95-390; s. 15, ch. 96-364; ss. 8, 9, ch. 98-190; ss. 13, 44, ch. 2000-354; s. 13, ch. 2002-2; s. 27, ch. 2021-271.

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 550.615

Total Results: 6

Debary Real Estate Holdings, LLC v. State, Department of Business & Professional Regulation, Division of Parimutuel Wagering

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2013-05-10T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 112 So. 3d 157, 2013 WL 1923751, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 7682

Snippet: or area and a number of permits. See, e.g., §§ 550.615(7), (9); 550.6805(9)(d), (f). Thus, when the Legislature

Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation v. Gulfstream Park Racing Ass'n

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2007-09-06T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 967 So. 2d 802, 32 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 542, 2007 Fla. LEXIS 1597, 2007 WL 2492308

Snippet: The issue before this Court is whether section 550.615(6), Florida Statutes (Supp.1996), is unconstitutional…contended that Gulfstream was in violation of section 550.615(6), which prohibits Gulfstream from selling its…circuit court, challenging the provisions of section 550.615(6) on a number of constitutional grounds. Among…statute, the trial court concluded that section 550.615(6) was unconstitutional as a special law enacted…Calder, Pompano Park and Hialeah Park. Section 550.615(6) was enacted in 96-364, Laws of Florida. There

GULFSTREAM PARK RACING v. Tampa Bay Downs

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2006-09-21T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 948 So. 2d 599

Snippet: The title of section 550.615 is "intertrack wagering." See § 550.615, Fla. Stat. (2005). The…simulcast. See § 550.615(3), Fla. Stat. (2005). Similarly, the statement in section 550.615(3) that pari-…Gulfstream Park has, in fact, violated section 550.615(3) [relating to intertrack wagering in general]… for summary judgment, asserting that sections 550.615(3) and 550.6305(9)(g)(1) of the Florida Wagering…statement also supports the premise that section 550.615(3) of the Florida Statutes prohibits enforcement

State, Dept. of Business v. Gulfstream

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2005-08-31T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 912 So. 2d 616

Snippet: appeal from a final judgment declaring section 550.615(6), Florida Statutes, unconstitutional. Among other…conditions that trigger the prohibition in section 550.615(6) against intertrack wagering apply only in one…policy. For these reasons, we hold that section 550.615(6), Florida Statutes is a special law enacted in…maintained that Gulfstream was prohibited by section 550.615(6) from selling its broadcasts within its market…circuit court challenging the validity of section 550.615(6) on a number of constitutional grounds. Among

Ocala Breeders'co., Inc. v. Fla. Gaming Centers, Inc.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2001-08-16T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 793 So. 2d 899

Snippet: District Court of Appeal declaring invalid section 550.615(9), Florida Statutes (Supp.1996). See Ocala Breeders…Statutes (Supp. 1990), an earlier version of section 550.615(9),[1] containing the same licensure criteria. …Division), asking the trial court to declare section 550.615(9) unconstitutional. Jai Alai claimed that in the…another pari-mutuel business applied for a section 550.615 license, Breeders would always prevail because …Breeders. After the trial court declared section 550.615(9) unconstitutional as a special law, Breeders

OCALA BREEDERS' v. Florida Gaming Centers

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1999-03-03T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 731 So. 2d 21

Snippet: this appeal is the constitutionality of section 550.615(9) Florida Statutes, which enables one thoroughbred…Ocala Breeders obtained a license under section 550.615(9) to conduct intertrack wagering. Florida Gaming…authorized in other remote facilities. Section 550.615(9), Florida Statutes (Supp.1996), extends intertrack…Alai challenged the constitutionality of section 550.615(9) in a declaratory judgment suit in the circuit…rendered a final summary judgment declaring section 550.615(9) unconstitutional. Based on the undisputed facts